Curated by Dicle Beştaş, the exhibition brings together the works of Batu Bozoğlu, Volkan Dinçer, Delal Eken and Clarissa Thieme. In the fragility of acceptance; data and ghosts is a research process that prefers the narrative one to the testimony read with a documentary approach, summoning the ghosts of the past rather than instrumentalizing the subject as a consistent data source. The exhibition questions what subjective testimony can mean in the context of collective or social mobilizations. It juxtaposes documentary approaches with different data analysis and imaging materials that objectify with technical and legal procedures. In this way, artistic practices offer a democratic perspective with forms that come into contact with each other in different fields.
Batu Bozoğlu, Volkan Dinçer, Delal Eken, and Clarissa Thieme are among the artists of the program designed by architect-curator Dicle Beştaş. Located in the minus-level gallery converted from an old bank vault, the exhibition has the desire to activate different aesthetic forms and media such as performance, video and installation. Regarding the historical location and architecture of its space, the exhibition invites its viewers to look at the idea of a collective archaea with trembling and entangled bodies with its “data and ghosts”
With the support of Batu Bozoğlu game developer Resul Alici, his work, Project: Impact, developed as a digital installation and performance for the creation of online experience, was realized in conjunction with this exhibition in partnership with Performistanbul.
Thanks to KASA Gallery, Derya Yücel, perfomistanbul, Simge Burhanoğlu, who contributed with their collaborations in the formation of the exhibition, Cengiz Tekin for the final reading, Özgenur Geriş for the translation into English, whose texts I often refer to when creating the conceptual framework of the exhibition. Many thanks to Eray Çaylı, to İlker Cihan Biner for pre-reading the exhibition text and for his contributions, and to my dear artist friends Batu Bozoğlu, Volkan Dinçer, Delal Eken, and Clarissa Thieme, who opened the door to productive discussion platforms throughout the development of the exhibition.
